Susanne Braham worked as an editor for Columbia University for more than seventeen years but has finally retired. She began writing in earnest twelve years ago, after the sudden loss of her fifty-six-year-old husband. Five of her poems about widowhood have been published in two separate anthologies, the most recent one being The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival. She has had poetry published in Metropolitan Diary of The New York Times and in CHEST Journal, among other places, and her literary nonfiction and humorous anecdote have appeared online. (sb559@columbia.edu)